Discussion and Conclusion
The above described bacteriolytic (turbidimetric) method of determining the lysozyme activity in the blood has been proven to be reliable, reproducible and applicable simultaneously to a large number of determinations. A wide range of concentration of crystalline egg-white lysozyme which had been added to whole blood was recovered quantitatively.
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These studies were supported in part by a grant from the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation, Midland, Michigan.
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Fogelson, S.J., Ross, A. & Lobstein, O.E. A method for the quantitative determination of lysozyme activity in blood. Amer. Jour. Dig. Dis. 21, 327–331 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02883952
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